The main space for TORC-based Lord of the Rings Online Kinship members and aspirants to join, accept applications for membership, gather, speak, sing, loot, make decisions, and generally take themselves too seriously.

I wasn't sure if this was a good place to post this, but thought it might be good to give some insight to who I am. As I've gotten to know a few in the kin and view their actions, motivations, and values, I've come to feel a good connection. Hopefully, a few things about me will foster that connection for others.

I started this whole MMO gig with Ultima Online, anyone remember that one? I guess it was early 2000. I played until that game evolved to a point where if you played the most, you got the best stuff and won. I had done nearly all the PvE portion of that game although I lacked in PvP, again, because I didn't have the disposable time to collect the items necessary to be competitive.

After stopping the production shard version of that game, I started playing private servers. I had some great experiences there.

Along came a few games which I dabbled in until World of Warcraft. I started that in 2004 and joined a guild on Feathermoon called the Order of Twilight. I played WOW with that guild until around 2009, or maybe 2010, at which point WOW lost quite a bit of its flavor for me.

Having risen to a point of 2d in command (with others) in the Order of Twilight, I started a chapter in LOTRO and we moved the guild into a multi-game facet.

Recently, the guild leader announced a retirement of sorts, and not willing to fill his shoes, I reduced my role in that guild as well. This caused me to take a look at the LOTRO chapter and what I was doing with it, which wasn't much. I'm not a guy to burn lots of energy to start things in a game format. I play games to have fun, not work. However, I'm more than happy to help someone else who has the energy to make a start. Therefore, I wasn't well suited to lead a LOTRO chapter, but no one else was willing to fill that void.

In the end, we recently decided to shut down our LOTRO chapter and look for an environment that we can add to. Skjorld and I started searching, found a few different opportunities, and decided this was our resting place.

As for the man behind the curtain, I live in the US, retired from the Air Force with most of my career in law enforcement and security. I am currently an emergency manager on the base I last retired from.

If you've made this this far in my post, my thanks for the interest. I have not proofread this, so it is probably fraught with multiple grammar errors, but I'm late for work, haha!